ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,388, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NANTOMICS LLC (Culver City, Calif.).
"System and method for variant calling" was invented by John Zachary Sanborn (Culver City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locus tester or locust database has stored therein DNA or RNA sequence information for one or more loci of interest. The sequence information may include a list of k-mers in a given DNA or RNA sequence, an identification of whether each k-mer in the list of k-mers appears in a reference sequence or in a variation of the reference sequence, and a count of how many times each k-mer in the list of k-mers has been identified in seque...